Bottle



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BOTTLE.

Patented June 9, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEMUIEL O. KENDALL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,668, dated June 9,1896.

Application filed February 8, 1896. Serial No. 578,594. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEMUEL O. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bottlesof that class which are designed not to be refilled; and it has for itsobj ects, among others, to provide a simple and cheap construction ofbottle which can be easily filled and corked and sealed and which cannotbe opened without breaking ofii a portion of the neck of the bottle,after which the cork can be withdrawn in the ordinary way. The bottle isformed with an extension or elongation of its neck, which extension isprovided with interior shoulders or projections, under which is adaptedto be sprung a metallic cap, which effectually prevents access to thecork without breaking oii the extension, which latter may be renderedmore easily broken by making it thinner at its junction with the bodyportion of the bottle.

Other objects and advantages of the inven tion will. hereinafter appear,and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by theappended claim.

The invention in this instance resides in the peculiar construction ofthe bottle and the novel means for sealin g the same, all as.n1ore fullyhereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then particularlypointed out in the claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 is a substantially centralvertical section through a bottle provided with my improvements. Fig. 2is a perspective view of the cap removed. Fig. 3 is a view of the bottleafter the extension has been broken off.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews.

Referringnow to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates thebottle, which is provided with an annular enlargement c1, and above thesame an extension B, which is made thinner at its junction with the neckat the said enlargement, so that it may be easily broken therefrom by asharp blow when it is desired to get at the contents of the bottle. Theextension is formed with an interior shoulder O, as seen best in Fig. 1,and with the interior shoulder or projections D.

E is a metallic cap having the legs or arms F, which are of springmaterial and which project from the cap at diametrically oppositepoints, although there may be three or more of these arms or legs, iffound necessary.

In practice the bottle is filled in the usual manner and the cork Ginserted in the neck portion thereof, as shown. Then the cap is applied,and as itis pushed in the arms will spring out with a snap under theshoulder or projection O, and the body portion of the cap will spring orsnap under the projections D, and. when once in place it will beimpossible to remove the cap, and the only way that the contents of thebottle can be gotten at will be to break ofi the extension at theweakened point, and then the cork can be withdrawn with a corkscrew orother means.

Modifications in detail may be resorted to without departing from thespirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages. The capmay be of any suitable material, not necessarily metal.

hat is claimed as new is.

A bottle formed with a neck with an enlargement and an extension beyondthe enlargement formed with two sets of projections upon its inner wall,combined with a metallic cap having spring-arms and a spring bodyportion adapted to be sprung under said projections, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

LEMUEL O. KENDALL.

Witnesses:

JAs. A. MCLAREN, JEREMIAH J. HURLEY.

